By watching my family, I have learned to not do business with family. Although everyone may have the best of intentions going into a deal, too many things can go wrong. It is not worth hard feelings within the family to make such a risk.
Jenny's Life Lessons
Friday, December 17, 2010
What Happens to You Does Not Make You the Person You Are, How You Handle it Does.
My Nana has told me this life’s lesson so many times. A person cannot always prevent unpleasant things from happening to them. Bad things happen to everyone. But one does have the power to control how they react to the action. This life lesson is something Randy Pausch lived by. Instead of looking at his cancer in a negative way, he did everything he could to help his family get through his death. My mom’s family has put us through a lot of situations where we could have looked at things in a lot of negative ways, and generally my cousins’ mom did. From all of these stories, I have learned that you need to handle as much as you can in a positive manner, or they will eat you away inside. Nana has actually landed in the hospital several times due to stress. One time, she went with my aunt to retrieve her belongings in Tennessee. My aunt’s boyfriend was throwing big boxes of pots and pans at my aunt as hard as he could, and Nana couldn’t do anything about it. They drove back that night, and the next day, Nana went to the hospital with a “broken heart.” |
Save Early, Save Often
“Save early, save often” is one of the most valuable lessons my dad taught me. So many times I have put a lot of time into typing a project, and then all of a sudden I lose it. So now I hit the save button every few minutes. I admit I sometimes feel silly when I save my document every 3 minutes, but I feel better when I hear someone say, “My computer turned off. Now I have to start over.” I am never that person freaking out from losing a document. |
It is always better to be safe than sorry when working with technology. Sometimes things happen and you can never know when you may get distracted and have to walk away from you computer for a minute. So I have made it a practice to “save early, save often”.
Don't Procrastinate
I encourage everyone to not wait until the last minute to start a project. Otherwise, you will experience unnecessary stress while working on the assignment. Also, you will probably not do the best job you are capable of since you feel extra pressure from the deadline.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
It’s Better to Do the Right Thing Simply Because it’s the Right Thing to Do, Not For the Credit.
Doing the right thing without wanting credit shows real character in a person. So many people want to be praised for every good act they do. I think that spirit defeats the purpose of doing something nice.
Everyone needs help from time to time. It takes one person doing something generous to start a chain of nice gestures. One of my mom’s coworkers would always write checks to families in need and not want my mom to tell anybody who wrote the check. I think this person assisted people with the right spirit.
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